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Research Computing and Data Services

Quest Unavailable for Maintenance Beginning June 22; ColdFront Launches June 26

Quest, including the Quest Analytics Nodes, the Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC), the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC), and Quest OnDemand, will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance from 8 a.m. on Monday, June 22, to 5 p.m. on Friday, June 26. Following the maintenance, Northwestern IT will launch ColdFront on Friday, June 26, a new platform that will streamline resource and user management for Quest users. More details can be found on the Announcing ColdFront page.

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Supporting faculty, student, and staff researchers by providing data science and visualization, computing, and data-management expertise

We provide campus researchers across all disciplines access to computing resources and consulting services to support innovative research.

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Access to high performance computing, research software, and global networks for conducting computationally intense research.

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Data Management and Sharing

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Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization

Support for collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and programming with research data.

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Identify events, resources, and people to help you learn computational and data skills for your research.

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Research Computing and Data Services staff consults with Northwestern researchers across all disciplines and schools. Read more about our work in our research case studies.

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We work across the University to support the computational and technology needs of our researcher community through consultation, training, grant writing assistance, visualization services, and more. Meet our team.